Hello Anime Boston Cosplayers,
We heard you like Space, so we’ve made lots of space for cosplay gatherings. Anime Boston is going to have several spaces around the Hynes Convention Center, as well as 3 rooms in the Hilton dedicated to Cosplay Gatherings and Group Photoshoots this year. See the map of locations here.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Group organizers can post to the thread over here to add their photoshoot to the schedule.

For this year, locations and times will be first-come-first-served.There will be one group per location per timeslot, unless the group agrees to share ahead of time.

Groups can sign up for 1 half-hour, 1 hour, or 1 hour-and-a-half timeslots, depending on expected size. Most photoshoots only take an hour; less people take less time, and we have seen large enough groups in the past that have needed 1.5 hours. (Please plan your shoots accordingly, so you can let the next group start on time.)

As we've suggested in the past, continue to organize with your specific groups within your own individual threads as to when and where your photo shoots will be. Once you are sure, please post the series/group name, location for the gathering/photoshoot, and day and time of the gathering. If this information is not included in your post, then it cannot be entered into the schedule. Post here in the following format:

Series/Manga/Movie/Group Name
Location of Shoot
Day and Time of Shoot
Link to thread or event page (if applicable)

The schedules will be updated until Thursday, March 29th, when staff will be on premise at Anime Boston. Sign-ups will be accepted through Wednesday, March 28th until midnight.

Reminder: Anime Boston staff does not organize the actual gatherings. We are just relaying information from you and placing it onto the schedule.

For maximum/recommended capacity numbers- I recommend the Hilton for large gatherings, since you don’t need to worry about hallway or through traffic, like in the Hynes (some of the locations are near panel/video rooms). The room spaces are larger there as well, with Saturn in the Belvidere Ballroom at the Hilton as our largest. The Hynes locations were chosen for their popularity in previous years, so they’ve been heavily used as gatherings before.Recommended capacity for the Hynes -
Mercury - Boylston Street Entrance, Under Escalators -50 people
Venus - 1st Floor West Side under 2nd set of Escalators -60 people
Mars - Outside Room 206 -40 people
Jupiter - Outside Room 313 -40 people

In the past, it’s been normal for popular series to have a shoot on each day of the con, so we do not have a restriction on how many times a particular series can sign up, though the same series can’t sign up for back –to-back shoots at the same location in order to get more time. We also understand that fandoms aren’t united, but ask coordinators that wish to run a gathering and see someone else has already signed the series up for something at a different time/location, to contact the other coordinator so you can combine groups to make one bigger/better gathering.

For the Hilton rooms, we do ask that groups disperse from the rooms at midnight and are mindful that they will be meeting late at night in a hotel that has guests not attending Anime Boston. If we hear feedback after the convention for a large interest in after-midnight gatherings, then we’ll see what we can do for next year.

If this is the aftermath feedback, I'll repost what I wrote in the over con feedback thread;

Hilton Hotel Photo shoot rooms, let's seee. I appreciated extending programming and space in the Hilton. And using the Neptune, Uranus and Saturn rooms was appreciated for meet ups not just photo shoots alone. Especially since it was still somewhat cold and windy outside the con. Having more indoor space for the photo shoot and gatherings was great. The spaces were great but I know there's no control over the lighting in the rooms. The lighting was not bright enough for photos. No windows for natural light. Ideally photos come out great with great lighting. And we could supply that on our own I guess. So not putting down any blame for that, just the experience I had was a little stale in taking photos. I had the expectancy that we would be in a higher floor level with big windows for natural light to come in. Just like the Hynes 3rd floor. I never been inside of the Hilton before so there went my expectations. Also wish that I had a better camera. But that's on my own account. Anyways, thankful that we weren't out in the New England cold. Thanks AB.